Method of making wardrobe-hooks



(No Model.)

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METHOD OF MAKING WARDROBE HOOKS.

No. 497,783. Patented May 23, 1893.

a 1 Ga UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES GLOVER, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

METHOD OF MAKING WARDROBE-HOOKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 497,783, dated May 23,1893.

Application filed November 30,1888. Serial No. 292,256. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES CLOVER, of Hartford,in the county ofHartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovementsinWardrobe-Hooks, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description, whereby any one skilled in the art can make anduse the same.

The object of my invention is to provide a wardrobe hook that shall bestronger, and cheaper in construction than the cast-iron hooks of theprior art that most nearly resemble it in general outline.

My invention consists in a hook made of Wrought metal, as moreparticularly hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 shows a piece of wire in side and inend view. Fig. 2 is a side View of the wire as drawn and tapered afterone step in the process of form ing the hook, and with the ends preparedto receive knobs. Fig. 3 is a detail view showing the hook in process ofconstruction and illustrating the method of forming the integral rivet.Fig.4 is a detail side view of the hook bent to shape and attached tothe baseplate. Fig. 5 is a detail front view of the finished hook. Fig.6 is a detail view of the back of the hook showing the rivets.

In the manufacture of hooks adapted for hanging thereon coats, hats andother garments it has been customary to make them of cast brass, orbronze metal, for the reason that cast-iron cannot be riveted, and forthe further reason that that material costs too much to finish, and itis desirable to give to the hooks of the better grades a high degree offinish. Brass or bronze metal has been largely used for the reason thatit can be readily finished and polished to a high degree. Such metal,however is not as strong as castiron, or as wrought iron, but manydifficulties have heretofore prevented the use of wrought metal.

In the practice of my invention I make use of a piece of metal wire,preferably iron or steel, that is indicated in the accompanying drawingsby the letter a; such a piece of wire is left of substantially fulldiameter at one part Z), and is drawn down or tapered toward theopposite ends 0, 0'. These ends are either upset to suitable size for afinish, or they are shouldered down to form the pins cl on which theknobs e are secured by riveting. blank is then placed between the diesf, f

by means of which the central portion 1) of the blank is somewhatbroadened and a hearing surface 19' formed on the back of the blank atthe same time that the integral projections h are formed. It isessential to the formation of these projections that the die) shouldhave one edge f of the recesses flared so that the projections h aretapered on all but one side. When thus formed the metal will How toperfectly form the integral rivets. After being thus formed the rivetsare trimmed to the cylindrical form shown in Fig. 4 by means of asuitable tool so that y will pass through and fit into the hol formed inthe base-plated which forms a part of the hook. The hook is bent to theshap Suitable for use that is shown in Fig. 4 0f t drawings, and it isimmaterial whethe it bent to this hook shape before or after riveting itto the plate. The hook is formed t flowing lines and free from abruptang l bends so that it may be the more readily polished and finished bythe usual methods, and the plate 1' is preferably polished and finishedbefore the hook is secured to it.

By the practice of my invention iron wire can be used to produce awardrobe hook that may be of one-third the weight of a given book ofequal strength of the prior art, while eing of a metal many timescheaper than the brass or bronze previously used. These i o hooks may belacquered and colored, and finished so as to make fully as seemly a hookas any of the hooks made of much more expensive material and by moreexpensive processes.

I claim as my invention The improvement in the manufacture of wardrobehooks made of wire, that consists in first drawing and tapering a pieceof wire toward the ends, then flattening the central portion on the backto form afastening base having integral projections from the fiattenedrear surface, and then securing a back plate to the wire by means of theintegral projections as rivets, all substantially as described.

CHARLES CLOVER. Witnesses:

CHAS. L. BURDETT, ARTHUR B. JENKINS.

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